Bed-spring fabric



A. RHENSTROM.

BEDSPRING FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED APR-5| 1919- Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

ANTHONY RHENSTROM, OF KEN'OSHA, WISCONSIN.

BED-SPRING FABRIC.

Application filed April 5,

Spring Fabrics, of which the following is r a specification.

This invention relates in general to bedspring fabric, and has moreparticular reference to bed-spring fabric of the rectangular link typeand provided with links having legs composed of two strands of wirearranged close together and connected at one end by an eye and providedat the other with hooks for engagement with other links of the fabric.

In the construction of fabric of this character it is not infrequentlythe custom to provide links of the general character above outlinedarranged with the hooks of one link engaged in the eye of the one nextadjacent to form a chain or strand extending from one end of the fabricto the other and to cross-connect these chains by links hooked merely inthe eyes of the links of the chains. It has been found in practice thatdifficulty is experienced in preventing the cross-connecting links fromsliding down out of the eyes and engaging the legs. the evil of sucharrangement is immediately apparent when it is considered that thisdestroys the normal arrangement of the links consequently marring thevisual effect of the fabric and also places undue strain on thesecross-connecting links, for the distance between the legs is, or may bewhen weight is supported by the fabric, greater than the distancebetween the adjacent sides of the eyes in which the displacedcross-connecting link is supposed to engage. Effort has been made toovercome this evil by twisting the legs about each other but this hasplaced undue twisting.

strain on the wire and where galvanized wire is used in breaking thegalvanized coating. I

My present invention has for a principal object the provision of a linkwhich will insure against the displacement of links connected to it andwhich will not have the wires of the legs wrapped about each other andwhich will not by reason of its construction provide possibility ofreadily breaking the galvanized surface.

Another important object of my present Specification of Letters Patent.

1919. Serial No. 287,871.

invention is the provision of a fabric hav- Patented Feb. 7, 1922.

ing links of this character which will be of simple and pleasingappearance and which can be made without requiring the complicatedmechanical action of twisting the legs one about the other.

Numerous other objects and advantages of the inventionwill be apparentas it is more fully understood from the following description whenconsidered in connection with the accompanying drawing illustrating apreferred embodiment thereof.

On the drawing,

Figure 1 is a partial bottom plan view of a bed-spring fabric embodyingmy present invention;

Fig. 2 is a section taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the links.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention I haveshown on the drawinga part of a bed-spring fabric of the usual rectangular link arrangementand comprising longitudinal links 11 connected by cross-connecting links12. The longitudinal links 11 are provided bybending a single piece ofwire at its center to provide a round or other shaped eye 13, and legs14 arranged closely together and preferably is substantial parallelism,each of these legs having turn-back hooks 15 at their free ends whichhooks are engaged in the e e of a next adjacent link to arrange the inks11 in connected or chained-section form as will be readily understood.The cross-connecting links 12 each consist merely of a single shortpiece or wire bent at each end into hooks 16 which hooks are engaged inthe eyes 13 appropriately arranged to receive them.

My invention is illustrated in the present instance in the formation ofthe eye 13 and its relation with respect to the two legs 14. It will benoted that the eye is disposed at a 180-degree angle with respect to thenormal rangement of the parts Without departing from the spirit andscope of the invention or sacrificing all of its material advantages,the form hereinbefore described being merely a preferred embodimentthereof.

I claim: 1. A linkv fabric for bed-springs, comprising longitudinallinks bentat the center to formran eye and to arrange the legs of saidlinks in parallelism, said legs being crossed at the eye to dispose theleg connecting at one side of the eye upon the opposite side of the legconnected With the other side of the eye;

2. A fabric for bed-springs having links composed of two legs arrangedin close parallelism and connected at one end by an integral eye, theside'of the eye connected With a leg being disposed at the opposite sideof the link from said leg.

3.- A link for a bed-spring fabricconsist .ing 'oftwo legs-extendingfrom an integral eye at one end and overlying each other at the eye andin close parallelism throughout their len th, the leg at each side beingconnected with the side of the eye on the opposite side of said leg. 7

4-. A link for a bed-spring fabric c0niprising two legs arranged inclose paral -lel'isn1 and connected at one end'by an intcral eye,theside of the eye connected with a eg being dlsposed at the oppositeside of th'elink from said leg, said'legs at the cross ing point beingbent to dispose said legs in the same horizontal plane when the fabricis arranged inthe bed.

ANTHONY RHENSTROli L

